Olmert to Assad: Put Tuchas Affen Tish

Apparently Israel has been contacting Syria since the Annapolis fiasco making peace overtures. Syria hasn’t answered. Olmert is surprised that President Assad is being rude…and well is now playing telephone…using Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Spector as a messenger:

Olmert to Assad: I await an answer regarding negotiationsJPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST Dec. 25, 2007Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday relayed to Syrian President Bashar Assad the message that “a lot has changed in relations between Israel and Syria.” Olmert, who made the statement during a meeting with Republican Senator Arlen Spector, asked him to “tell Assad that I await an answer from him regarding the dynamic messages I have conveyed to him regarding negotiations.” In another meeting that the senator held with a senior official in Jerusalem, the senator was asked to put his weight behind securing a deal that would bring about the release of captured IDF soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser, who are still being held by Hizbullah. On Saturday, legislator Muhammad Habash was quoted as saying that “if Syria feels threatened by Israel, it will be hard to stop our missile operators from responding to the Israeli aggression by attacking the Dimona nuclear reactor.” In an interview with Al-Quds Al-Arabi, Habash emphasized that the Dimona facility is “within range” of the Syrian missiles. Habash told the London-based newspaper that Syria did not rule out a violation of its sovereignty by Israel and said Damascus was “prepared” for this eventuality. On the eve of the Annapolis conference President Shimon Peres said that “there are talks with Syria, some of them under the carpet.”

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